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IQ is highly hereditable and has a higher correlation with income than the 5% here.

• vezycash 8y ago
  Soft skills, have been shown to be a higher predictor of income than IQ. You are right that something's been passed down - but it's not the genes. It's the social connection to: * Get jobs without applying for them. * To learn important economic news before anyone hears them. E.g. President bought 1200 Cuban cigar just before banning imports from CUBA. Read this: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/index.php/article/great-moments-kennedy-cuba-and-cigars-7840 https://www.cigaraficionado.com/index.php/article/great-mome... * To get contracts regardless of ones qualifications. I've read that Aristocrats ensure their kids have ivy league degrees to maintain a illusion of fairness. There's an article I read here on HN that says, Ivy league schools are successful because they select applicants who would be successful without them.
  • ikeboy 8y ago
    If genetics doesn't affect income, why is there a correlation between identical twins raised separately? See e.g. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38881/HECER_DP364.pdf https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/38881/HECER...
    • marnett 8y ago
      It wasn't stated there is no effect, just that social class has a larger impact at the highest rungs of society.
      • ikeboy 8y ago
        >You are right that something's been passed down - but it's not the genes. That sounds like a claim that there's no causal connection running through genes.